Apartment buildings in Ariane, a district with a big Muslim population in Nice

The families of 12 victims were able to see the bodies of their loves ones for the first time on Sunday - three days after the killings.

Psychologist Brigitte Erbibou, who has been helping survivors of the attack come to terms with what they witnessed, told the Independent: "The wait is so difficult because there is no way to come to terms and begin the grieving process.

"That is what the children are telling me, they say 'with our Dad we know, but with our mum, it's unbearable'."